On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §635

Man. Post. Cap. IX: PLAC — 'Adam sinned for all posterity': true as great harm; false as loco nostro

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Still less do I grasp what you add: when Adam sinned, he sinned for all his posterity. If you mean he sinned to the great harm of all his posterity, nothing is truer. For from that was born the vice that invaded the human race and devoted it to death. But if you mean he sinned in our place, nothing less carefully considered could have been said by you.

Latin

Minus etiam capio quae subnectis, cum Adamus peccavit, pro omnibus suis posteris peccavit. Si intelligis eum magno omnium posterorum malo peccasse, nihil verius. Hinc enim natum est vitium illud quod genus humanum invasit & morti addixit. Sed si intelligis eum loco nostro peccavisse, nihil dici potuit a te minus considerate.

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English follows the locked 1661 Saumur Latin of Capita I–XIV partial through Man. Post. Caput IX (eph-ho / eph-ho pantes) before eph-ho / eph-ho pantes, reconstructed from IA PDF page images with Vision OCR and pdftotext as check. No modern English was copied. Cap. IX deepen+ remain.

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IA deimputationepri00lapl. Densify: Capita I–XII + Caput XIV + Man. Post. Cap. II–VI through Cap. X Rom. 5:14 tip. Not whole Disputatio; Cap. X Rom. 5:14+ / ~494 pp Disputatio remain.

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